New Books - August 2022
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Auletta, Ken - Hollywood ending: Harvey Weinstein and the culture of silence (ebook available)
- Blakinger, Keri - Corrections in ink: a memoir
- Blum, Howard - The spy who knew too much: an ex-CIA officer's quest through a legacy of betrayal
- Botton, Sari - And you may find yourself ...: confessions of a late-blooming gen-x weirdo
- Buhle, Kathleen - If we break: a memoir of marriage, addiction, and healing
- Gaydos, Ellyn - Pig years
- Green, M.R. - Shadowlands: a journey through Britain's lost cities and vanished villages
- Joan Didion: the last interview and other conversations
- Jovin, Ellen - Rebel with a clause: tales and tips from a roving grammarian
- Keefe, Patrick Radden - Rogues: true stories of grifters, killers, rebels and crooks (ebook available)
- Kimmerle, Erin H. - We carry their bones: the search for justice at the Dozier School for Boys
- Kociejowski, Marius - A factotum in the book trade: a memoir
- Kolbert, Kathryn - Controlling women: what we must do now to save reproductive freedom
- Leibovich, Mark - Thank you for your servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the price of submission (ebook available)
- Lewis, Damien - Agent Josephine: American beauty, French hero, British spy
- Li, Zhuqing - Daughters of the flower fragrant garden: two sisters separated by China's Civil War
- McGrath, Charles - The summer friend: a memoir
- Pipher, Mary Bray - A life in light: meditations on impermanence
- Rojas Contreras, Ingrid - The man who could move clouds: a memoir
- Schilling, Govert - The elephant in the universe: our hundred-year search for dark matter
- Smith, Lis - Any given Tuesday: a political love story (ebook available)
- Sweet, John Wood - The sewing girl's tale: a story of crime and consequences in revolutionary America
- Tur, Katy - Rough draft: a memoir (ebook available)
FICTION
- Adams, Cara Blue - You never get it back
- Albert, Elisa - Human blues: a novel
- Alharthi, Jokha - Bitter orange tree: a novel (translated from the Arabic)
- Asim, Jabari, - Yonder: a novel
- Bauer, Carlene - Girls they write songs about
- Bayard, Louis - Jackie & me
- Beauman, Ned - Venomous lumpsucker
- Binnie, Imogen - Nevada
- Connolly, Cressida - Bad relations
- Dark, Alice Elliott - Fellowship Point: a novel (ebook available)
- De Gregorio, Concita - The missing word: a novel
- Gainza, María - Portrait of an unknown lady: a novel (translated from the Spanish)
- Gazdanov, Gaito - An evening with Claire
- Huguley, Piper - By her own design: a novel of Ann Lowe, fashion designer to the social register
- Jessen, Ida, - A postcard for Annie
- Keneally, Thomas - The Dickens boy: a novel
- Khalid, Zain - Brother alive: a novel
- LaCour, Nina - Yerba Buena
- Macy, Caitlin - A blind corner: stories
- Maher, Kerri - The Paris bookseller
- Miller, Rebecca - Total: stories
- Mishima, Yukio, - Beautiful star (1st-time translation from the Japanese of this 1962 novel)
- Moreno-Garcia, Silvia - The daughter of Doctor Moreau: a novel (ebook available)
- Murata, Sayaka - Life ceremony: stories (translated from the Japanese)
- Newman, Sandra - The men: a novel
- Nganang, Alain Patrice - A trail of crab tracks (translated from the French)
- Perrotta, Tom - Tracy Flick can't win: a novel (ebook & audiobook available)
- Pfeijffer, Ilja Leonard - Grand Hotel Europa (translated from the Dutch) (ebook available)
- Quinn, Joanna - The whalebone theatre
- Roy, Anuradha - The earthspinner: a novel
- Runde, Katie, - The shore: a novel
- Stanfill, Francesca - The falcon's eyes: a novel
- Talty, Morgan - Night of the living rez (ebook available)
- Walter, Jess - The angel of Rome: and other stories (ebook available)
- White, Adam - The midcoast: a novel (ebook available)
- Woods, Caroline - The lunar housewife: a novel
- Zevin, Gabrielle - Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
see more fiction arrivals in the stacks section below.
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Afia, Nekesa - Harlem sunset
- Baldacci, David - The 6:20 man (ebook available)
- Barrett, Lorna - Clause of death
- Barton, Fiona - Local gone missing
- Brett, Simon - Death and the decorator: a Fethering mystery *
- Doiron, Paul - Hatchet Island
- Edwards, Martin - The girl they all forgot: a Lake district mystery
- Ellis, David, - Look closer
- Estleman, Loren D. - Monkey in the middle
- Gentill, Sulari - The woman in the library: a novel (ebook available)
- Griffiths, Elly - The locked room: a Ruth Galloway mystery* (ebook available)
- Habib, Conner - Hawk Mountain: a novel
- Knecht, Rosalie - Vera Kelly lost and found (ebook available)
- Miller, Philip - The goldenacre
- Oates, Joyce Carol - Extenuating circumstances: stories of crime and suspense
- Quirk, Matthew - Red warning: a novel
- Ragnar Jónasson - Outside (translated from the Icelandic)
- Reichs, Kathy - Cold, cold bones
- Silva, Daniel - Portrait of an unknown woman (ebook available)
- Starr, Jason - The next time I die
- Vaughan, Sarah - Reputation: a novel
- Ware, Ruth - The it girl (ebook available)
- Webb, Brandon - Cold fear: a thriller
- Woods, Stuart - Black dog
- Yokomizo, Seishi - Death on Gokumon Island (translated from the Japanese) (ebook available)
POETRY
- Baudelaire, Charles - Late fragments: Flares, My heart laid bare, prose poems, Belgium disrobed (translated from the French)
- Bearden, David Omer - The mental traveler: poems of David Omer Bearden
- Espada, Martín - Floaters: poems
- Rūmī - Gold (translated from the Farsi)
- Russo, Alan Bätjer - State line: collected poems and other writings
- Vang, Mai Der - Yellow rain: poems
- The owl and the nightingale: a new verse translation (translation by Simon Armitage)
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & POETRY
- Arrington, Lauren - The poets of Rapallo: how Mussolini's Italy shaped British, Irish, and U.S. writers 821.09 A
- Auden, W.H. - The complete works of W.H. Auden: poems (2 volumes) 821 A
- Butts, Mary - The collected essays 824 B
- Eagleton, Terry - Critical revolutionaries: five critics who changed the way we read 801 E
- Franz Kafka: the drawings (edited by Andreas Kilcher w/ Pavel Schmidt) 838 K OVERSIZE
- Hastings, Patrick - The guide to James Joyce's Ulysses 823 J
- Janet Malcolm: the last interview and other conversations 828.09 M
- Sachs, Aaron - Up from the depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and rediscovery in dark times 820.9 S
- Stavans, Ilan - What is American literature? 820.9 S
FICTION
- Bland, Eleanor Taylor - Dead time (acclaimed 1992 mystery) F B
- Gask, Arthur - The red paste murders (1923 mystery) F G
- Hawker, Libbie - One for the blackbird, one for the crow (historical fiction set in 19th-c. Wyoming) F H
- Peace, David - Red or dead (2013 football novel by acclaimed author) F P
- Pitts, Leonard - The last thing you surrender (2019 historical novel set in Jim Crow South by Pulitzer-winning journalist) F P
- Seeley, Mabel - The chuckling fingers (Depression-era novel by well known mystery author) F S
- Smith, William Gardner - Anger at innocence & South Street (early novels by author of The Stone Face) F S
- Söderberg, Hjalmar - Martin Birck's youth (1901 Swedish novel by author of Doctor Glas) F S
WRITING
- Block, Lawrence - A writer prepares (ebook available) 92 B65172 B
- Davies, Peter Ho - The art of revision: the last word 808 D
ART
- Benoit, Agnès - Art in the first cities of Iran & Central Asia: the Sarikhani Collection 709.3 B
- Fox, James, - The world according to color: a cultural history 752 F
- Nochlin, Linda - Making it modern: essays on the art of the now 709.04 N
- Spalding, Frances - The real and the romantic: English art between two world wars 709.42 S
- Supernatural America: the paranormal in American art (Robert Cozzolino, ed.) 709.73 S
- Truitt, Anne - Yield: the journal of an artist (4th and final entry in series) 709.2 T
ARCHITECTURE
- Goodall, John - The castle: a history 728.8 G
- Moore, Charles W. - Dimensions: space, shape & scale in architecture 720 M
- Newhouse, Victoria - Parks of the 21st century: reinvented landscapes, reclaimed territories 363.6 N OVERSIZE
- The women who changed architecture (Jan Cigliano Hartman, ed.) 720.92 W
PERFORMING ARTS
- Bingham, Emily - My old Kentucky home: the astonishing life and reckoning of an iconic American song 784.6 B
- Chilton, Karen - Hazel Scott: the pioneering journey of a jazz pianist from Café Society to Hollywood to HUAC 92 S4261 C
- Polisi, Joseph - Beacon to the world: a history of Lincoln Center 790 P
- Spector, Ronnie - Be my baby: a memoir 92 S7419 S
PSYCHOLOGY
- Malabou, Catherine - Morphing intelligence: from IQ measurement to artificial brains 153 M
- Scull, Andrew - Desperate remedies: psychiatry's turbulent quest to cure mental illness 362.2 S
- Vora, Ellen - The anatomy of anxiety: understanding and overcoming the body's fear response 616.8 V
SCIENCE
- Linden, Eugene - Fire and flood: a people's history of climate change, from 1979 to the present 363.7 L
- Oluseyi, Hakeem M. - A quantum life: my unlikely journey from the street to the stars 92 O529 O
- St George, Zach - The journeys of trees: a story about forests, people, and the future 333.7 S
BIOGRARPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Akkerman, Nadine - Elizabeth Stuart, queen of hearts 92 E4367 A
- Doidge, Kristin Marguerite - Nora Ephron: a biography 92 E639 D
- Gauchet, Marcel - Robespierre: the man who divides us the most 92 R6535 G
- Gessen, Keith - Raising Raffi: the first five years 92 G3918 G
- Middleton, Richard - Cornwallis: soldier and statesman in a revolutionary world 92 C8212 M
- Reginato, James - Growing up Getty: the story of America's most unconventional dynasty 920 G3947 R
- Wortman, Marc - Admiral Hyman Richover: engineer of power (Yale U. Press Jewish Lives series) 92 R5425 W
HISTORY
- Adlington, Lucy - The dressmakers of Auschwitz: the true story of the women who sewed to survive 940.5318 A
- Brooks, Michael - The art of more: how mathematics created civilization 909 B
- Merriman, Helena - Tunnel 29: the true story of an extraordinary escape beneath the Berlin Wall 943.087 M
- O'Connell, Robert L. - Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the world they forged 355.0973 O
- Porwancher, Andrew - The Jewish world of Alexander Hamilton 92 H2172 P
- Tackett, Timothy - The glory and the sorrow: a Parisian and his world in the age of the French Revolution 92 C723 T
ANTIQUITY
- Aristotle - How to tell a story: an ancient guide to the art of storytelling for writers and readers 808 A
- Sallust - How to stop a conspiracy: an ancient guide to saving a republic 937.02 S
RACE IN AMERICA
- Henning, Kristin - The rage of innocence: how America criminalizes Black youth 364.3 H
- Touré - Who's afraid of post-blackness?: what it means to be Black now 305.88 T
- A movement in every direction: a Great Migration critical reader (Jessica Bell Brown, Ryan N. Dennnis, eds.) 305.88 M
- The lynching of Emmett Till : a documentary narrative (Christopher Metress, ed.) 364.1 L
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Economy, Elizabeth - The world according to China 327.51 E
- Herf, Jeffrey - Israel's moment: international support for and opposition to establishing the Jewish State,1945-1949 956.94 H
- Nair, Chandran - Dismantling global white privilege: equity for a post-Western world 305.8 N
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Kissinger, Henry - Leadership: six studies in world strategy 301.15 K
- Rouse, Wendy L. - Public faces, secret lives: a queer history of the women's suffrage movement 324.3 R
- Seabrook, Nick - One person, one vote: a surprising history of gerrymandering in America 324 S
LAW
- Clifford, Denis - Plan your estate Ref. 347.6 C
- Krasner, Larry - For the people: a story of justice and power 92 K89491 K
- Lipsky, Seth - The citizen's Constitution: an annotated guide 342.73 L
- Ziegler, Mary - After Roe: the lost history of the abortion debate 363.4 Z